The Youth Union in Ho Chi Minh City yesterday honored 51 outstanding ethnic minority young people at an ethnic culture festival which celebrates the diverse culture of ethnic groups. 51 ethnic minority young people are those who studied well and...
Five disadvantaged households of the ethnic minority group in Ea Bar and Ea Ba communes in the south central province of Phu Yen’s Song Hinh district have received a total grant of VND200 million ($8,810) to build houses. The financial assistance...
The Khau Vai Love Market festival has taken place in Khau Vai commune of Meo Vac district, giving visitors an insight into the unique market in the northernmost province of Ha Giang. Khau Vai Love Market is almost a century old and traditionally...
The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors late last week approved a $102 million loan to the government of Vietnam to support the effort of industrial enterprises to adopt energy-efficiency technologies and practices, according to WB’s press...
Japan’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), a governmental organization promoting the research and development of industrial technology, has granted $3.2 million to help farmers in Vietnam’s central province of...
The UN Resident Coordinator in Vietnam Kamal Malhotra said that the organization will continue long-term cooperation with the Vietnamese government to help the country improve its adaptive capacity, state media reported Tuesday. Mr. Malhotra made...
Total pledged official development assistance (ODA) by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), a Japanese government agency, to Vietnam in the fiscal year (FY) of 2016 was over JPY187.1 billion ($1.7 billion), the Tien Phong newspaper...
Ho Chi Minh City’s Department of Health has instructed general hospitals to improve emergency aid treatment in an aim to reduce overcrowding at Cho Ray Hospital. These so-called first-category hospitals are health facilities with highly professional...
Hanoi Department of Health is calling on the city’s health agencies and the Preventive Medicine Center to better prepare to fight rise of summer diseases, especially dengue fever, following a rising number of cases reported in the first quarter of...
HCM City authorities are struggling to reach the target of having wastewater treatment systems at all export processing zones, industrial parks and industrial complexes by 2020. Nguyen Thi Thanh My, deputy director of the city’s Department of...
